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Lion Feuchtwanger
German writer
Lion Feuchtwanger | |
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Feuchtwanger kick up a fuss 1933 | |
| Born | (1884-07-07)7 July 1884 Munich |
| Died | 21 Dec 1958(1958-12-21) (aged 74) Los Angeles |
| Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter, essayist, coliseum critic |
| Notable works | Jud Süß (1925) The Oppermanns (1933) |
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by Harold von Hofe, Prof. Emeritus, USC
In the fall of 1940 Lion Feuchtwanger, then internationally the most widely read novelist writing in the German language, arrived in the Excalibur in New York. He was accompanied by the Reverend Waitstill Sharp, who, with his wife Martha, was sponsored by American Unitarian Association to help refugees escape Nazi persecution. In Lisbon, crowded with thousands desperate to leave Europe, Feuchtwanger was able to obtain passage to New York since Martha Sharp gave him her ticket.
The name Feuchtwanger had become a literary by-word by 1926-1927 in England and America when his first major novel, Jud Süß, was brought out as Jew Suess by Martin Secker in London, and as Power by the Viking Press in New York. The stern London critic Arnold Bennett characterized the story about the eighteenth century Jewish courtier Joseph Süss Oppenheimer as a novel that enthralled while it broadened knowledge. The Londoner reported April 1,1927 that Jew Suess ran away with the season's plums. For the American critic Clifton Fadiman it was a historical novel of epical dimensions. Matthew Josephson wrote in the New York Herald Book Review that Feuchtwanger won an honored place among the foremost writers of Europe, for his novel was exec
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Feuchtwanger, Lion
Pseudonym: J. L. Wetcheek. Nationality: German; lived in exile in France, 1933-40, and the United States beginning in 1940. Born: Munich, 7 July 1884. Education: Studied philosophy, literature, and language at Berlin University; Munich University, Ph.D. in literature 1907. Military Service: Served briefly in the German Army during World War I (discharged for medical reasons). Family: Married Marta Loffler in 1912; one daughter (deceased). Career: Drama critic, Die Schaubühne, 1908-11; full-time writer. Died: 21 December 1958.
Publications
Collections
Gesammelte Werke [Collected Works]. 1933-54.
Gesammelte Werke in Einzelausgaben. 1959.
Novels
Der tönerne Gott: Roman [The God of Clay]. 1910.
Thomas Wendt: Ein dramatischer Roman. 1920.
Die hässliche Herzogin Margarete Maultasch: Roman. 1923; as The Ugly Duchess, 1927.
Jud Süss: Roman. 1925; as Power, 1926; as Jew Suess, 1926.
Wartesaal-Trilogie (Waiting Room Trilogy):
Erfolg: Drei Jahre Geschichte einer Provinz (2 vols.).1930; as Success: Three Years History of a Province, 1930.
Die Geschwister Oppermann. 1933; as The Oppermanns, 1933.
Exil: Roman. 1940; as Paris Gazette, 1940.
Josephus Trilogie:
Der jüdische Krieg (trilogy). 1932; as Josephus